How to unlock all Lego Marvel’s Avengers characters? That question will be answered in this guide that shows you how and who to unlock to get the full roster of secret Lego Marvel’s Avengers unlockable characters on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC, Mac, PS Vita & 3DS.

The Lego Marvel’s Avengers characters guide and a full characters list follows here-under.

How To Unlock All Lego Marvel’s Avengers Characters

Discover below where to find all 257 playable characters in the game!

To unlock 216 of all 257 Lego Marvel’s Avengers playable characters, you basically have to finish the Story Mode levels and explore Manhattan and its 7 open world hub areas. This goes especially fast if you have access to flying superheroes in between playing levels.

The remaining 41+ spots at the bottom of the character select screen (which normally are invisible until unlocked) are reserved for for downloadable content (DLC) characters, which at first will only be available via pre-order, but will all be released as part of the paid Season Pass for the game that adds DLC Character Packs to the game throughout 2016.

The 12 last spots on the character select screen’s sides are for the custom characters you can create at the SHIELD Helicarrier computer.

Here’s how to find, unlock & buy the hidden characters in this guide for Lego Marvel’s Avengers…

Where To Find Unlockable Characters In Open World HUBs: Outside of completing Story levels, you can find most Character Tokens in the open world HUBs.

[Coming Soon: Guides for all 15 story levels to find all characters there. Comment if you need them]

How To Buy Unlocked Characters For Play: Return to the SHIELD Helicarrier by flying there and using any blue colored Vehicle Call-in Points to access the character shop, character customizer, and other features. You can then buy the characters you’ve unlocked (with our tips from this page) — by holding the Y button on Xbox or Triangle button on PlayStation or X button on Nintendo systems — to bring up the character grid and selecting them to buy them. After that you can finally play with them.

It is important to note that this character buying/selecting menu cannot be accessed while you’re in Story levels/missions, it’s only accessible when you’re in the open world hubs or when you’re doing Free Play.

Here’s a video showing all character icons and their names 1 by 1. View the complete character grid*:

*This character grid for Lego Marvel’s Avengers includes the 3 DLC packs currently available at launch. They include Civil War, Thunderbolts and the Explorer DLC Packs. Captain America’s Civil War is a timed exclusive to PlayStation at the moment and Thunderbolts as a Best Buy pre-order exclusive as well, but rest assured that these will be available a few months later in 2016 as part of the game’s Season Pass.

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